Trent Richardson

This is HOT! You have a new website, which is a bit complex. You’re afraid your users don’t understand where all the features and functionality is located. What do you do? You give them a quick tour of the site! Impromptu can now position itself per “state”. If you’re unfamiliar with states check out the [...]

I was pretty amazed when I first saw Impress.js. It’s ability to take a very simple html page and use transformations to create a presentation phenomenal. This plays right in to the hands of developers who want to create something snazzy, but do not have the video experience to do so. It is also probably [...]

After some time the standard jQueryUI themes can get stale, boring, monotonous, and you need a fresh look. I’ve rounded up a couple very customized, non-”run of the mill” themes you should take a look at. Absolution (Github) is a very clean theme with support for Uniform and Wijmo. Uniform, as its name indicates, styles [...]

A while back I discussed how to use the new sqlsrv extension for php to retrieve multiple result sets at a time from stored proceedures. This was indeed helpful when you need to retrieve related data and avoid multiple calls to stored proceedures. The down side is this was using a rather expensive (but good) [...]

Finally, UberUploadCropper gets a much needed update. First off, flash is gone. Now you can upload and crop with just javascript and your serverside language of choice. What is UberUploadCropper? It is a jQuery plugin which pulls together jCrop, Impromptu, and FileUploader plugins into one uniform unit to upload and crop images. The latest version [...]